The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has just received a “heart transplant,” high in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. ALMA, the most complex astronomical observatory ever built on Earth, installed a new hydrogen maser.
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First Recipient of Women in Engineering Fellowship Joins Staff of Central Development Laboratory
Following a generous grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Central Development Laboratory (CDL) at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has selected their first recipient of the postdoctoral Women in Engineering fellowship, Priyanka Mondal.
Astronomers Discover Most Massive Neutron Star—or Least Massive Black Hole
Green Bank Telescope helps MeerKAT uncover a mysterious object at the boundary between black holes and neutron stars.
New Details of Supermassive Black Hole’s Shadow Revealed
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has released new images of supermassive black hole M87*. A recent paper published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics presents new images from data collected by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and several other instruments within the EHT.